Licence Allowed to Continue as Licence Lending Suspicions Not Proven

Harry Bowyer, Road Transport Barrister, represented this operator who was suspected of lending his licence to another operator. The operator was able to show that throughout the relevant period he had been maintaining the vehicle and downloading the vehicle unit and relevant driver cards. The Traffic Commissioner stated that he still harboured some suspicions but was not satisfied to the civil standard that licence lending had occurred. The licence was allowed to continue subject to a temporary curtailment to reflect some maintenance shortfalls.